Apr 5 · 6 min read · A post on Reddit recently showed off a library that lets you control web maps with hand gestures — full Minority Report style, waving your hands in front of a webcam to pan, zoom, and rotate. My first reaction was "that's incredibly cool." My second ...
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Mar 30 · 4 min read · Last year I set out to build a cafe discovery platform. The dataset I ended up with was 440,000 cafes across 195 countries. The first question was obvious: how do you rank them? Star ratings are broken. A 4.2 on Google Maps tells you almost nothing —...
Join discussionFeb 18 · 2 min read · Why History Needs Animated Maps History is deeply connected to geography. Empires rise and fall, borders shift, armies move, and territories expand or collapse. Static maps struggle to convey change over time, which is essential to understanding hist...
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Jan 22 · 1 min read · Last year, I learned QGIS through the GIS and Spatial Analysis for Urban Practitioners course by All Things Urban. This year, with free Udemy access via SFPL, I'm looking to expand my skills. First, I dug up my old final project to revisit and share....
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Jan 22 · 10 min read · User types "123 Main St" — you need latitude and longitude. GPS tracker sends coordinates — you need a readable address. Both are geocoding. One forward, one reverse. Forward Geocoding Address in, coordinates out. const response = await fetch( `htt...
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